Dale County Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Dale County

The Dale County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dale County. It reported 279 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside eight of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:

• Ozark, 14,368 residents: 522 arrests reported for 2025.
• Daleville, 4,992 residents: 308 arrests reported for 2025.
• Midland City, 2,305 residents: 66 arrests reported for 2024.
• Level Plains, 1,839 residents: 138 arrests reported for 2025.
• Newton, 1,652 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2025.
• Pinckard, 594 residents: 54 arrests reported for 2024.
• Clayhatchee, 483 residents: 13 arrests reported for 2022.
• Napier Field, 415 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2023.

A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

The Enterprise Police Department and the Dothan Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Dale County, so their arrests are not broken out for Dale County here.

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dale County

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.

• Ozark: 522 for 2025, 930 for 2024, 1,002 for 2023, 1,330 for 2022 and 1,085 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
• Daleville: 308 for 2025, 302 for 2024, 214 for 2022 and 359 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
• Dale County Sheriff's Office: 279 for 2025, 197 for 2024, 200 for 2023 and 176 for 2022.
• Level Plains: 138 for 2025, 94 for 2024, 69 for 2023, 67 for 2022, 58 for 2021 and 137 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
• Midland City: 66 for 2024, 238 for 2023, 158 for 2022, 106 for 2021 and 157 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
• Pinckard: 54 for 2024.
• Newton: 8 for 2025, 26 for 2024, 23 for 2023, 20 for 2022, 10 for 2021 and 104 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
• Napier Field: 46 for 2023, 15 for 2022 and 78 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
• Clayhatchee: 13 for 2022 and 13 for 2021.

Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,669 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,313 in 2024 against 1,532 in 2023, down 14 percent.

Napier Field and Clayhatchee reported only part of 2024 (11 months and 9 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Dale County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dale County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 83 people, up from about 79 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 120 beds, and it ran at 66 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dale County

Whether someone was arrested in Dale County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Dale County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dale.alacourt.gov, phone 334-774-8011); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at government-county.org/company-dale-county-district-attorney-in-ozar..., phone (334) 774-9500).

Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.

Alabama does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Dale County

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Alabama Public Records Law the agency must answer within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.

• An arrest by the Dale County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• An arrest in Ozark, Daleville, Midland City, Level Plains, Newton, Pinckard or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (334) 774-9500, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Dale County Circuit Court, through the court records page at dale.alacourt.gov, phone 334-774-8011.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dalecountyal.gov (page title: Dale County Alabama > County Commission > Open Records Request).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.

Cities in Dale County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the ten cities in Dale County: Ozark, Daleville, Midland City, Level Plains, Newton, Pinckard, Clayhatchee and Napier Field. Ariton and Grimes have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Dale County Circuit Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Dale County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

• Ozark (14,368)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Dale County each year?

Ozark reported 522 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Dale County sent in full, the seven with every month on file reported 1,669 between them.

Where are people arrested in Dale County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dale County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Dale County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Dale County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Alabama Public Records Law.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Dale County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Dale County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Alabama Public Records Law the answer is due within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dalecountyal.gov.

Is this the official Dale County website?

No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.